Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
List of Publications
Ph.D. Dissertation:
The Role of Shells in the Reconstruction of Socio-Economic Aspects of Neolithic through
Early Bronze Age societies in Sinai. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999.
Advisors: Prof. Eitan Tchernov and Prof. Anna Belfer-Cohen
M.A. thesis:
Marine Molluscs from Neolithic sites in Southern Sinai. Institute of Archaeology. The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1989.
Advisors: Prof. Eitan Tchernov and Prof. Paul Goldberg
Book
Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. (editor), 2005, Archaeomalacology: Molluscs in Former
Environments of Human Behaviour. Oxbow Books, Oxford. (Reviewed by Robert J. C.
Mowat in International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 35/2 (2006): 349-351).
Published papers
Peer-Reviewed Journals
1. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., Leng, M. J., Aldridge, D.C., Arrowsmith, C., Gümüş, B.A.,
Sloane, H.J. 2012. Modern and early-middle Holocene shells of the freshwater
mollusc Unio, from Çatalhöyük in the Konya basin, Turkey: Preliminary
palaeoclimatic implications from molluscan isotope data. Journal of
Archaeological Science 39: 76-83. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.09.003
2. Colonese, A., Mannino, M.A., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Fa, D.A., Finlayson, C.J.,
Lubell, D., Stiner, M.C. 2011, Marine Mollusc Exploitaion in Mediterranean
Prehistory: An Overview. Quaternary International 239: 86-103.
3. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E, 2010, The Lessons of Dentalium Shells in the Levant.
Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 40: 219-228.
4. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E, 2010, Opportunities and continuities of shellfish gathering
and their relationship to major steps in human evolution: A response to Jerardino.
Pyrenae: Journal of Western Mediterranean Prehistory and Antiquity 41(2): 185189.
5. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and I. Zohar, 2010, The Role of Aquatic Resources in the
Natufian Culture. Eurasian Prehistory 7(1):29-43.
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6. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Gümüş, B.A. and Y. İslamoğlu, 2010, Fossil hunting in the
Neolithic: shells from the Taurus Mountains at Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
Geoarchaeology 25(3): 375–392. DOI:10.1002/gea.20311
7. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and Beyin, A. 2009, Late Stone Age Shell Middens on the
Red Sea Coast of Eritrea. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 4: 108-124.
8. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Vandermeersch, B. and O. Bar-Yosef, 2009, Modern
Behavior of Anatomically Modern Humans: Shells and ochre from Qafzeh Cave,
Israel. Journal of Human Evolution. 56: 307–314.
9. Nadel D., Lengyel G., Bocquentin F., Tsatskin A., Rosenberg D., Yeshurun R., BarOz G., Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., Beeri R., Conyers L., Filin S., Hershkovitz I.,
Kurzawska A., Weissbrod, L. 2008, The Late Natufian at Raqefet Cave: The 2006
Excavation Season. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 38: 59-131.
10. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2008, Dentalium Shells Used by Hunter-Gatherers and
Pastoralists in the Levant. Archaeofauna 17: 103-110.
11. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and Naomi Porat, 2008, Green Stone Beads at the Dawn of
Agriculture, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.
105(25): 8548-8551.
12. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2007, Archaeomalacological Research in Israel: The
Current State of Research. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 56(2-4): 191–206.
13. Valla F. R., H. Khalaily, H. Valladas, E. Kaltnecker, F. Bocquentin, T. Cabellos, D.
E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, G. Le Dosseur, L. Regev, V. Chu, S. Weiner, E. Boaretto,
N. Samuelian, B. Valentin, S. Delerue, G. Poupeau, A. Bridault, R. Rabinovich,
T. Simmons, I. Zohar, S. Ashkenazi, A. Delgado Huertas, B. Spiro, H. K. Mienis,
A. M. Rosen, N. Porat, A. Belfer-Cohen, 2007, Les Fouilles de Ain Mallha
(Eynan) de 2003 à 2005 : quatrième rapport préliminaire. Journal of the Israel
Prehistoric Society 37: 135-383.
14. Weinstein-Evron, Mina, Daniel Kaufman, Noga Bachrach, Guy Bar-Oz, Daniella E.
Bar-Yosef Mayer, Sylvia Chaim, Dothan Druck, Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Israel
Hershkovitz, Nataly Liber, Danny Rosenberg, Alexander Tsatskin, and Lior
Weissbrod, 2007, After 70 Years: New Excavations at the el-Wad Terrace, Mount
Carmel, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 37: 1-99.
15. Bar-Oz, G., R. Bouchnik, E. Weiss, L. Weissbrod, D. E. Bar-Yosef Mayer and R.
Reich 2007, “Holy Garbage”: A Quantitative Study of the City-Dump of
EarlyRoman Jerusalem. Levant 39:1-12.
16. Sivan, D., Potasman M., Almogi-Labin A., Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., Spanier E. and E.
Boaretto. 2006, The Glycymeris query along the coasts and shallow shelf of
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Israel, southeast Mediterranean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology 233 :134-148.
17. Garfinkel, Y., Dag, D., Hesse, B., Wapnish, P., Rookis, D., Hartman, G., Bar-Yosef
Mayer, D.E. and O. Lernau, 2005, Neolithic Ashkelon: Meat Processing and
Early Pastoralism on the Mediterranean Coast. Eurasian Prehistory 3(1): 43-72.
18. Lengyel, G., Nadel, D., Tsatskin A., Bar-Oz, G., Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., Be’eri, R.,
and I. Hershkovitz 2005, Back to Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of
the Israel Prehistoric Society 35: 245-270.
19. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2005, Pelecypod Beds Revisited: Glycymeris in Bronze Age
Sites. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 35: 45-52.
20. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2005, The Exploitation of Shells as Beads in the
Palaeolithic and Neolithic of the Levant. Paléorient 31/1: 176-185.
21. Kuhn, S.L., A. Belfer-Cohen, O. Barzilai, M.C. Stiner, K.W. Kerry, N. Munro, D.E.
Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2004, The Last Glacial Maximum at Meged Rockshelter,
Upper Galilee, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society. 34:5-47.
22. Valla F.R., Khalaily H., Valladas H., Tinerat-Laborde N., Samuelian N., Bocquentin
F., Rabinovich R., Bridault A., Simmons T., Le Dosseur G., Miller-Rosen A.,
Dubreuil L., Bar-Yosef Mayer D., Belfer-Cohen A., 2004, Les fouilles à Mallaha
en 2000 et 2001 : 3ème rapport préliminaire. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric
Society.34:49-244.
23. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., N. Porat, Z. Gal, D. Shalem and H. Smithline, 2004,
Steatite Beads at Peqi’in: Long Distance Trade and Pyro-Technology during the
Chalcolithic of the Levant. Journal of Archaeological Science 31:493-502.
24. Nadel, D., A. Tsatskin, D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, M. Belmaker, E. Boaretto,
M.E.Kislev, I. Hershkovitz, R. Rabinovich, O. Simchoni, T. Simmons, E. Weiss,
I. Zohar, G. Emmer, T. Ghraieb, U. Grinberg, P. Spivak, L. Weissbrod and
Y.Zaidner, 2003, The Ohalo II 2001 Season of Excavation: A Preliminary Report.
Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 33: 9-36.
25. Nadel D., A. Tsatskin, D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, M. Belmaker, E. Boaretto, M.E.
Kislev, I. Hershkovitz, R. Rabinovich, T. Simmons, E. Weiss, I. Zohar, O. Asfur,
G. Emmer, T. Ghraieb, U. Grinberg, H. Halabi, L. Weissbrod and Y. Zaidner,
2002, The Ohalo II 1999 - 2000 Seasons of Excavation: A Preliminary Report.
Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 32:17-48.
26. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 1999, Mollusc Shells, in: A. Golani and E.C.M. van den
Brink, Salvage Excvations at the Early Bronze Age IA Settlement of Azor. ‘Atiqot
XXXVIII:1-49.
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27. Bar-Yosef, D.E. 1999, Marine Shells at Saflulim and Rosh Horesha (New
Excavations): A Preliminary Report. Palestine Exploration Quarterly JanuaryJune:62-64.
28. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 1997, Horvat Galil and Nahal Bezet: The molluscs. Tel Aviv
24 (2):223-228.
29. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 1997, Neolithic Shell Bead Production in Sinai. Journal of
Archaeological Science 24:97-111
30. Goring-Morris, A.N., Y. Goren, L.K. Horwitz, I. Hershkovitz, R. Lieberman, J. Sarel
and D. Bar-Yosef, 1994-5, The 1992 Season of Excavations at the Pre-Pottery
Neolithic B Settlement of Kefar HaHoresh. Mitekufat Haeven 26:74-121.
31. Goring-Morris, A.N., Y. Goren, L.K. Horwitz, D. Bar-Yosef, I. Hershkovitz, 1995,
Investigations at an Early Neolithic Settlement in the Lower Galilee: results of the
1991 season at Kefar HaHoresh. ‘Atiqot 28:37-62.
32. Hovers E., L.K. Horwitz, D.E. Bar-Yosef and C. Cope-Miyashiro, 1988, The site of
Urkan-e-Rub IIa, A Case Study of Subsistence and Mobility Patterns in the
Kebaran period in the Lower Jordan Valley. Mitequfat Ha'Even 21:20-48.
33. Bar-Yosef D.E. and J. Heller, 1987, Mollusca from Yiftah'el, Lower Galilee, Israel.
Paléorient 13(1):131-135.
Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings
34. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2011, Nawamis, Shells, and Early Bronze Age Pastoralism.
In: M. S. Chesson (ed.), Daily Life, Materiality, and Complexity in Early Urban
Communities of the Southern Levant: Papers in honour of Walter E. Rast and
R.Thomas Schaub. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana. pp. 185-195.
35. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2005, An Introduction to Archaeomalacology. In: Bar-Yosef
Mayer, D.E. (editor), Archaeomalacology: Molluscs in Former Environments of
Human Behaviour. Oxbow Books, Oxford. Pp. 1-4.
36. Bar-Yosef, O. and D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2002, Early Neolithic Tribes in the
Levant. In: The Archaeology of Tribal Societies. Edited by W.A. Parkinson.
International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor, MI. pp. 340-371.
Excavation Reports
37. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2012, The Shells of Nahal Zehorah. In: A. Gopher (ed.)
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Village Communities of the Pottery Neolithic Period in the Menashe Hills, Israel:
Archaeological Investigations at the Sites of Nahal Zehora. Emery and Claire
Yass Publications in Archaeology Monograph Series Number 29, Tel Aviv.
Volume III, pp. 1162-1169.
38. Avi Gopher Ruth Eyal and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2012, Stone and Clay
Personal Ornaments from the NaḤal Zehora Sites. In: A. Gopher (ed.) Village
Communities of the Pottery Neolithic Period in the Menashe Hills, Israel:
Archaeological Investigations at the Sites of Nahal Zehora. Emery and Claire
Yass Publications in Archaeology Monograph Series Number 29, Tel Aviv.
Volume III, pp. 1245-1254.
39. S.A Rosen, Y. Avni, and D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2011, Shells, Beads, and Other
Artifacts. In: An Investigation Into Early Desert Pastoralism:Excavations At The
Camel Site, Negev by Steven A. Rosen. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,
Los Angeles, CA. pp. 147-154.
40. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2011, Mediterranean and Red Sea Shells. In: ThareaniSussely, Y, (ed.). Tel Aroer: An Iron Age II Caravan Town and a Roman
Settlement in the Negev. Avraham Biran (1975-1982) and Rudolph Cohen (19751976) Excavations. Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology.
Jerusalem. pp. 298-300.
41. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2011, Shells. In: The Excavations of Khirbet er-Rasm,
Israel: The changing faces of the countryside edited by A. Faust and A. Erlich.
BAR International Series 2187, Oxford. p. 164.
42. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and B.A. Gümüs, 2011, Mollusc Shells at Çatalhöyük:
Insights from the 2010 Study Season.http://www.catalhoyuk.com/archive_reports/
43. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2010, Chapter 14: Shell Assemblages of the Gilgal sites. In
Gilgal: Early Neolithic Occupations in the Lower Jordan Valley, The Excavations
of Tamar Noy. Edited by O. Bar-Yosef, A.N. Goring-Morris and A. Gopher. Brill,
Boston. pp. 239-243.
44. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2010, Chapter 13: The Stone Beads of the Gilgal Sites. In
Gilgal: Early Neolithic Occupations in the Lower Jordan Valley, The Excavations
of Tamar Noy. Edited by O. Bar-Yosef, A.N. Goring-Morris and A. Gopher. Brill,
Boston. pp. 223-237.
45. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2010, Shell archive report 2009: Part I: Marine, fossil, and
freshwater artifacts. http://www.catalhoyuk.com/archive_reports/
46. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2008, Mollusc Shells and Barnacles. In: Neolithic Ashkelon
by Y. Garfinkel and D. Dag. Qedem 47: 269-270.
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47. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and B.A. Gümüs, 2008, Shell archive report 2008
http://www.catalhoyuk.com/archive_reports/
48. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2007, Shell trade at Kadesh Barnea. In: Excavations at
Kadesh Barnea (Tell el-Qudeirat) 1976 – 1982 by Rudolph Cohen and Hannah
Bernick-Greenberg. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 34/1:273-283.
49. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E. 2006, Mollusc shells from Tel Batash. In N. Panitz-Cohen
and A. Mazar (Eds.), Timnah (Tel Batash) III: The Finds from the Second
Millennium BCE Qedem 45:315-318.
50. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and I. Baruch, 2006, Mollusc Shells, In: Megiddo IV: The
1998-2002 Seasons, edited by I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin and B. Halpern. Emery
and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Tel Aviv. Pp. 497-504.
51. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2006, Marine and Riverine Shells at Gilat. In: Levy, T. E.
Ed. Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult: The Sanctuary at Gilat, Israel. London:
Equinox. Pp. 320-326.
52. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2006, Construction and Trade: The Shells from Tel BethShean, in Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989-1996, Volume I. From the Late
Bronze Age IIB to the Medieval Period, by Amihai Mazar. Israel Exploration
Society, Jerusalem. Pp. 711-722.
53. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2004 Section C: The Mollusc Shells. In: D. Ussishkin (ed.).
The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish (1973-1994). Emery and
Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Monograph Series 22, Tel Aviv
University, Tel Aviv. Vol. V:2490-2503.
54. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2003, A Third Shell Assemblage from Abu Ghosh. In:
Khalaily, H. and O. Marder, The Neolithic Site of Abu Ghosh, The 1995
Excavations. IAA Reports 19: 73-74.
55. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2003, Mollusc Shells and Shell Beads. In: I. Beit-Arieh,
Archaeology of Sinai: The Ophir Expedition. Tel Aviv, Emery and Claire Yass
Publications in Archaeology: 229-241.
56. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2003, Shell beads, freshwater clams and landsnails at Tel
Qashish. In: A. Ben-Tor, R. Bonfil and S. Zuckerman, Tel Qashish: A Village in
the Valley of Jezreel. Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987),
Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem. Qedem Reports 5:415-423.
57. Bar-Yosef Mayer D., 2002, Chapter 7: The Shell Pendants. Kissufim Road: A
Chalcolithic Mortuary Site, Edited by Y. Goren and P. Fabian. Israel Antiquities
Authority Reports 16. Jerusalem. pp.49-52
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58. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2000, Appendix IV: A Shell from Horvat ‘Eleq, In: Ramat
Hanadiv Excavations by Y. Hirschfeld. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem. pp.
749.
59. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2000, Chapter 16: Mollusc Shells, In: Megiddo III: The
1992-1996 Seasons, edited by I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin and B. Halpern. Emery
and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Tel Aviv University. pp. 478-486
60. Bar-Yosef, D. 1999, Shells from Three Middle Bronze Age I Sites in the Negev
Highlands, In: Ancient Settlement of the Central Negev, edited by R. Cohen. Israel
Antiquities Authority, vol. I:322-326 (in Hebrew).
61. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 1997, The Marine shells of Yiftah'el Areas A and B. In:
Yiftah'el: Salvage and Rescue Excavations at a Prehistoric Village in Lower
Galilee, Israel. Edited by E. Braun. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 2:200202.
62. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 1997, Miscellaneous Finds: The Marine Shells from Netiv
Hagdud. In: An Early Neolithic Village in the Jordan Valley, Part I: The
Archaeology of Netiv Hagdud. Edited by O. Bar-Yosef and A. Gopher. American
School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 43:189-192.
63. Bar-Yosef, D.E. 1995, The Molluscs from Grar. In: Grar - A Chalclolithic site in the
Northern Negev. Edited by Isaac Gilead. Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Press. Beer Sheva. pp. 453-462.
64. Bar-Yosef, D.E. 1994, The Marine Shells. In: Le Gisement de Hatoula en Judée
occidentale, Israël. Edited by Monique Lechevallier and Avraham Ronen.
Memoires et travaux de centre de recherche Français de Jérusalem. No. 8.
Association Paléorient, Paris. pp. 233-238.
65. Heller J. and D. Bar-Yosef, 1985, Molluscs from the Excavation at Sde Boqer. In:
Sde Boqer and the Central Negev, 7th-8th century AD, by Y.D. Nevo, Jerusaelm.
p. 33.
Conference Proceedings
66. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., and N. Porat, 2010, Glazed Steatite Paste Beads in the
Chalcolithic of the Levant: Long Distance Trade and Manufacturing Processes. In
Techniques and People: anthropological perspectives on technology in the
archaeology of the proto-historic and early historic periods in the Southern
Levant, edited by S.A. Rosen and V. Roux. Jerusalem: Centre de Recherche
Français de Jérusalem. De Boccard publishers. pp. 111-123.
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67. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2008, Mediterranean, Red Sea and Nilotic Shell Artifacts in
the Levant: Indicators of Trade Routes in the Bronze Age. In: Early Human
Impact on Megamollusks, edited by Andrzej Antczak and Roberto Cipriani.
British Archaeological Reports. Oxford: Archaeopress. pp. 197-208.
68. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2005, Shells in the archaeological record: Lachish as a case
study. In: Environmental Archaeology, edited by A. Faust and O. Ackerman. BarIlan University. Pp. 105-115. Hebrew.
69. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2002, The Shells of the Nawamis in Southern Sinai. In:
Archaeozoology of the Near East V. Edited by H. Buitenhuis, A. Choyke, M.
Mashkour and A.H. Al-Shiyab. ARC- Publicatie 62, Groningen. pp. 166-180.
70. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2002, Egyptian-Canaanite Interaction during the Fourth
and Third Millennia B.C.: The Shell Connection. In: Egypt and the Levant:
Interrelations from the 4th through the Early 3rd Millennium B.C.E. Edited by
E.C.M. van den Brink and T.E. Levy. Continuum, London. pp. 129-135.
71. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2000, The Economic Importance of Molluscs in the Levant.
In: Archaeozoology of the Near East IV A: proceedings of the fourth
International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and
Adjacent Areas. Edited by M. Mashkour, A.M. Choyke, H. Buitenhuis, and F.
Poplin. ARC Publicatie 32, Groningen. pp. 218-227.
72. Bar-Yosef D.E.,1991, Changes in the selection of marine shells during the transition
from the Natufian to the Neolithic. In The Natufian Culture in the Levant. Edited
by F. Valla and O. Bar-Yosef. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann
Arbor. pp.629-636.
73. Crabtree P.J., D.V. Campana, A. Belfer-Cohen and D.E. Bar-Yosef,1991, First
Results of the Excavations at Salibiya I, Lower Jordan Valley.In The Natufian
Culture in the Levant. Edited by F. Valla and O. Bar-Yosef. Monographs in
Prehistory, Ann Arbor. pp.161-172.
74. Bar-Yosef D.E., 1989, Late Paleolithic and Neolithic Marine shells in the southern
Levant as cultural markers. In: Proceedings of the 1986 Shell Bead Conference.
Edited by C.F. Hayes and L. Ceci. Rochester Museum and Science Center.
Research Records 20:169-174.
Encyclopedia Entries
75. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2008, Invertebrate Analysis, In Encyclopedia of
Archaeology, edited by Deborah Pearsall. Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 1560-1565.
76. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2001, Shells, Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy
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Land, Revised and Updated edition. Edited by A. Negev and S. Gibson.
Continuum, New York. p. 462.
Papers in edited volumes
77. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2002, The Use of Mollusc Shells by Fisher-HunterGatherers at Ohalo II. In Ohalo II: A 23,000 Year Old Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers’
Camp on the Shore of the Sea of Galilee. Edited by D. Nadel. Reuben and Edith
Hecht Museum, University of Haifa, Haifa. pp. 39-41 (Hebrew and English).
78. Horwitz, Liora Kolska , Eitan Tchernov, Henk K. Mienis, Dalia Hakker-Orion and
Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2002, The Archaeozoology of Three Early
Bronze Age Sites in Nahal Besor, north-western Negev. In Quest of Ancient
Settlements and Landscapes: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Ram Gophna.
Edited by E. van den Brink and E. Yannai. Ramot Publishing, Tel Aviv. pp.107133.
79. Özdogan, M., A. Özdogan, D. Bar-Yosef and W. Van Zeist, 1993, Çayönü kazisi ve
güneydogu analolu karma projesi: 30 yillik genel bir degerlendirme. Kazi
sonuçlari toplantisi I. 24-28 Mayis 1993, Ankara. T.C. Kültur bakanligi. pp. 103122. In Turkish.
Book Reviews
80. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2010, Book Review: Laurie, Eva M. 2008. An Investigation
of the Common Cockle (Cerastoderma edule (L)): Collection practices at the
kitchen midden sites of Norsminde and Krabbesholm, Denmark. Environmental
Archaeology 15(1):96-97.
Papers in non-refereed journals
81. Mienis, H.K., Ben-David Zaslow, R., and D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2006, Glycymeris
in the Levant Sea 1. Finds of Recent Glycymeris insubrica in the South East
Corner of the Mediterranean Sea. Triton 13 : 5-9.
82. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2003, On the Practicalities of Shell Analysis. The
Archaeo+Malacology Group Newsletter 3:2-4. http://triton.anu.edu.au/
83. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. 1999, Shells from Archaeological Contexts in Israel.
Qadmoniot XXXII(117):45-51 (in Hebrew).
Abstracts
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Bar-Yosef, D.E., 1988-89, Mollusks as food and ornament in prehistoric times. Israel
Journal of Zoology 35:79-80.
Bar-Yosef, D., 1987, The prehistoric use of shells as Jewelry. Mitekufat Haeven 20:182184 .
Papers in press and submitted
1. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., Peqi’in: The Shell Beads. In Gal Z., Shalem D., Smithline H.
(eds.), Peqi‛in: A Late Chalcolithic Burial Cave, Upper Galilee, Isarel. Jerusalem.
2. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Shells at Dan. In: Dan Excavations. Edited by D. Ilan.
3. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., The shells of Shiqmim. In Levy, T. E., Rowan, Y. M., and
Burton, M., eds. Forthcoming Desert Chiefdom : Dimensions of Subterranean
Settlement and Society in Israel’s Negev Desert (c. 4500-3600 BC) Based on New
Data from Shiqmim. London : Equinox Press.
4. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., in press, Shell Beads and Landsnails at Tel Bareqet.
Submitted to I. Paz. Tel Bareqet Excavations.
5. Spatz, A.J., D. E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, A. Nowell and Donald O. Henry, in press,
Ornaments of Shell and Stone: Social and Economic Insights. In Sands of Time: The
Early Neolithic Encampment of Ayn Abu Nukhayla, edited by D.O. Henry.
6. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and A. Beyin, in press, Mid-Holocene Shell Middens in
Eritrea. In G.Bailey, K. Hardy and A. Camara (eds) Mollusc shells as coastal
resources.
7. Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E. and Porat N. in press. Stone beads at Peqi’in. In Gal Z.,
Shalem D., Smithline H. (eds.), Peqi‛in: A Late Chalcolithic Burial Cave, Upper
Galilee, Isarel. Jerusalem.
8. Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer and Yana Vitalkov, in press, Mollusk Shells from the
Late Bronze Age Levels of Area G at Dor. Dor Area G report, edited by Ayelet
Gilboa and Ilan Sharon.
9. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., N. Porat and M. Weinstein-Evron , in press, Natufian Green
Stone Pendants from el-Wad: Characteristics and Cultural Implications. In: O. BarYosef and F. Valla, Proceedings of the Second Natufian Conference.
10. Kurzawska, A., D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer and H.K. Mienis, in press, Scaphopod shells
in the Natufian Culture. In: Scaphopods from archaeological sites in the Levant:
Nomenclature, diversity, and archaeological context, in Natufian in the Levant II, eds
O. Bar-Yosef & F. R. Valla. Ann Arbor: Monographs in Prehistory.
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11. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Temporal changes in shell bead technologies. In: Szabo K,
Dupont C., Dimitrijevic V., Serrand N. & Gomez-Gastelum L. (eds.),
Archaeomalacology: Shells in the archaeological record, Proceedings of the
Archaeomalacology session, 11th ICAZ International Conference, BAR International
Series.
12. Burçin A. Gümüş & Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. Micro-Freshwater Gastropod Remains
from Çatalhöyük, Turkey: Preliminary Environmental Observations. In: Szabo K,
Dupont C., Dimitrijevic V., Serrand N. & Gomez-Gastelum L. (eds.),
Archaeomalacology: Shells in the archaeological record, Proceedings of the
Archaeomalacology session, 11th ICAZ International Conference, BAR International
Series.
13. Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, A Worked Ostrich Eggshell from Megiddo Jail.
Submitted to Yotam Tepper, Israel Antiquities Authority.
14. Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Crown Plaza excavtions: Report on mollusc shells.
Submitted to Ron Beeri, Israel Antiquities Authority.
15. Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Mollusc Exploitation at Çatalhöyük. in: I. Hodder (ed.)
Humans and landscapes of Çatalhöyük: reports from the 2000-2008 seasons.
Çatalhöyük research project Volume 8. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los
Angeles, CA.
16. Burçin A. Gümüş & Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Micro-Freshwater Gastropods at
Çatalhöyük as Environmental Indicators. in: I. Hodder (ed.) Humans and landscapes
of Çatalhöyük: reports from the 2000-2008 seasons. Çatalhöyük research project
Volume 8. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles, CA.
17. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., Leng, M. J., Aldridge, D.C., Arrowsmith, C., Gümüş, B.A.,
Sloane, H.J. in press. Unio shells from Çatalhöyük: Preliminary palaeoclimatic data
from incremental isotopic analyses along the growth axis of the shells. in: I. Hodder
(ed.) Humans and landscapes of Çatalhöyük: reports from the 2000-2008 seasons.
Çatalhöyük research project Volume 8. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los
Angeles, CA.
18. Roseleen Bains, Milena Vasić, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Nerissa Russell,
Katherine I. Wright and Chris Doherty in press, Chapter 19: A technological
approach to the study of personal ornamentation and social expression at Çatalhöyük
in: I. Hodder (ed.) Humans and landscapes of Çatalhöyük: reports from the 20002008 seasons. Çatalhöyük research project Volume 8. Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology Press, Los Angeles, CA.
19. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., in press, Sha’ar HaGolan stone beads report. Shaar Hagolan
volume IV, edited by Y. Garfinkel and D. Rosenberg. Israel Exploration Society.
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20. Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer and Naomi Porat, submitted. Personal Ornaments at
Nahal Mishmar. Edited by Uri Davidovich.
21. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., in press, Towards a Typology of Stone Beads in the
Neolithic of the Levant. Journal of Field Archaeology.
22. Aldona Kurzawska, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer and Burçin A. Gümüş, submitted,
Micro-shells from the construction material in the TP Trench of Çatalhöyük. In
Arkadiusz Marciniak and Lech Czerniak, eds., TP excavations at Çatalhöyük.
23. Yannai, E. and D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, The beads. In: E. Yannai, ed. En Esur
(Asawir) II Excavations at En Esur Cemeteries. IAA Reports, Jerusalem.
24. Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., Imported and Worked Mollusc Shells at Tel Rehov. Tel
Rehov Excavations, Edited by Amihai Mazar.
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